Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-27

of twenty years purchase has been OBJ
tanned. This privilege is called Free
Sale"
~ If a tenant has not had a fair rent
fixed, and his landlord proceeds to evict
him, he (the TENANT can apply to the
Court to fix the rent, and while his applca-
ton is pending, the landlords proceedings
are restrained.
10. If tenant is evicted, he has the
right either to redeem at any time within
six months (see Privilege g., or to sell his
tenantcy within the same period to pur-
chaser who can likewise redeem, and thus
acquire all the privileges of the tenant.
IlI-PriUuege under the Land Pur-
chase act of 1885: a. If tenant wishes
to buy his holding, and arranges with his
landlord as to terms, he can change his
position from that or perpetual rent pay
er into that of the payer of an annuity ter
minable at the end of forty nine years, the
government supplying him with the entire
purchase money, to be repaid during
those forty-nlne years at 4 per cent This
annual payment of "a for every el00 bor-
rowed, covers both principal and interest.
Thus, if a tenant already paying statu-
tory rent of $50, agrees to buy from his
landlord at twenty years purchase, or
$1,000, the Government will lend him the
money, his rent will at once cease, and he
will pay not $50, but $40 yearly, for forty
nine years. and then become the owner of
his holding free of all charge. 1t is hardly
necessary to point out that, as these forty
nine years of payment roll by, the interest
of the tenant in his holding increases rap
pidly in value.
In considering these privileges, it must
be borne in mind that those conferred by
the Act of 1881 (Which broke down old
contracts of tenantcy, and even prohibited
tenants of holdings valued under ESQ
yearly from contracting themselves out of
the AcO could not have been given under
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1t must also be remembered that the
privileges cited above, though the most
important, are by no means the entire
number of the legal privileges of the Irish
tenant.
1t will be seen from the above statement
that under these acts there cannot be a
rack rent or a capricious eviction in Ire
land.
#See Federal Constitution, Article l.,
sect. X. mo State shall pass any law inn
pairing the obligation of contracts"
A Vermont "Reminiscences of Slavery Days.
Our Waterbury correspondent writes as
follows; "In the FREE PRESS of May ~
is quotation from the Troy Press stating
that the writer had never heard of an
anti-slavery speaker being mobbed in
Vermont. About 1886 two anti-slavery
speakers attempted to hold meet
ing in the old brick church at
Montpelier. There was full house
and Just as they were about to begin the
candles were blown out and there was
noise and confusion all over the house
The ministers jumped from the pulpit and
escaped through a back entrance. Youl
correspondent heard this from a member
of the legislature who was present at the
| meeting.
For Scrofula, Impoverished Blood and
General Debility.
/ Scots Emulsion of Purc Cod Liver oil, aUitI
HUpopbOSphicS, has no equal in the whole
realm OF Medicine. Read the following: ~
gave one bottle of ScOtt's Emulsion to my
own child for Scrofua. and the effect was
marvellous. %. +. GRAY, NJ ID, White Hall,
! Ind.